Hill Agriculture: Prospects, Constraints and Mitigations

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The rapid change in the agro-ecosystem leaves a snag in the establishment of harmony the discard of the disturb ecosystem due to wide usage of chemical pesticides, fertilizers and synthetic plant growth regulators. The long term effect were overlooked hence, boom of one time become bane for the ecosystem degradation. At the present context, it has become indispensable to look for sustainable crop protection management approaches for disease, insect-pest and crop management in hills and the present book is an effort to this direction.The layout of each chapter includes a brief introduction and pathogen-wise description of the diseases. Some chapters are vividly illustrated with with photographs of typical symptoms, graphs, tables and line drawing to make the subject more interesting and easy to understand for students, Scientists, Planners, Administrators, Growers and other end users with latest pertinent references. The book contains recent information on IDM, IPM Concepts and Practices in Integrated Plant Diseases, Insect-Pest Management, Diseases of Saffaron, Chili, Maize, Minor millets, Rice, Organic vegetatbles farming: its modern concept, principles and world senario, management of diseases and insect pest in Tomato, Sheath blight disease of Paddy, IPM in Vegetables in Hills,Bio-suppression of Insect pest in hills, Agroforestry in North Eastern Hill Region of India, Advances in Field Pea Production and Protection and Underutilized and Underexploited Vegetables Crops in Hills.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Shahid Ahamad

Dr. Shahid Amad, Ph.D. born on July 1, 1972 in a very poor Muslim family of village Gaharauli, The. Maudaha, Distt. Hamirpur, U.P. Dr. Ahamad completed his B.Sc. (Ag.) from N.D.U.A.T. Kumarganj, Faizabad in 1994; M.Sc. (Ag.) Plant Pathology from C.S. Azad University of Agri. And Technology, Kanpur, U.P. in 1996 and Ph.D. (Botany) from C.S.J.M. Univ. Kanpur, U.P. in 2003. He worked as a Research Associate with Prof. A.K. Sarbhoy for three years (1997-2000) in the Division of Plant Pathology, I.A.R.I., Pusa, New Delhi. He was appointed as Jr. Scientist (Plant Pathology) in 2001 in the SKUAST-Jammu at Regional tenure of nine years, he has published more than 70 publications in his credit. He has published more than 30 research papers in the journals of national and international repute, 20 popular articles in different magazines, 5 book chapters, I review/conceptual articles, 7 bulletins and 10 research abstracts. Recently he has been conferred with SPPS Fellow-2005 by the Society of Plant Protection sciences, Division of Nematology, IARI, New Delhi.